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We were on the Telly last night, on Dom Joly’s Made in Britain, and I’m sure each and every one of you were glued to the sofa too see it. For those who missed it because of an important reason – such as being in the pub for instance – here’s the bit about us, handily uploaded to YouTube and embedded here, oh isn’t the internet marvelous?

We’re going to be on TV this week, yay! We’re featured as part of this week’s episode of Made in Britain, a series in which mister Dom Joly tries to find out what is actually made in Britain.

In this episode, the 5th in the series, Dom will try to replace his Japanese gadgetry with British products, and pays a visit to our office to find out about the British Videogames industry. Here, watch this preview clip, in which he calls us all stoned hippies, thanks Dom!

The episode will be aired on UKTV at 20:00 on Friday 12th June, which we’re told is channel 534 on Sky and 206 on Virgin.

[UPDATE]

Huzzah! The episode is now in the land of the internets and available to view on YouTube.

Michelle’s dog Martha dressed up as Noby Noby Boy over the weekend. Too cute to miss!

Last Friday we had a visit from our friend Tim Schafer! Visiting Europe on a press tour for his forthcoming metal adventure Brutal Legend, we saw the perfect opportunity to repay his kindness of inviting a gang of molecules to Double Fine when they were over in San Francisco for GDC, and also a good excuse to hang out in the sunshine with our friend.

After a nice long lunch in the sun, Tim, his wife Rachael and their baby Lili, met the molecule gang in the office, drank some tea, and chatted to the star-struck testing team. Then we all headed off to have a Barbecue.

It was here, whilst we chomped on lovely grilled meats and sipped champagne, that the heirs of two of the beardiest and friendliest game designers in the world met. Here we see Psychadets Lili Schafer and Lautaro Healey, very possibly the future of game design, meeting for the first time.  All together now: awwwwwwwww :)

Thanks for coming to visit Tim, we all had a great time!

While we’re plugging along fixing the bugs and creating new content, we’re always delighted to see what the world of LittleBigPlanet has spawned outside of the game itself.  Here are some things we’ve found in the community that we’ve enjoyed in the office and definitely think is worth sharing.

The LittleBigPodcast covers all sorts of things like community level reviews, news updates, 100% story level playthroughs, and much more.  Very informative with high production values, these guys are doing infinitely more useful than whatever I was doing at that age.  They’re up to episode 6 right now, but I’m sure there will be more to come.  You can find it at: http://littlebigpodcast.blip.tv/

LittleBigPlanetoid have released another set of stickers, this time by illustrator Will Scobie. Check out how to find them here.

I just wanted to give a big shout out to LittleBigPlanet Central.  It’s one of the many fan sites that we visit constantly here at the office.  It is an absolutely amazing resource if you’re into the nitty gritty of level design and creation.  They also do some cool play and create competitions as well as community highlights and above all else, friendly, informative, and interesting discussion.  To jump into the fray: http://www.lbpcentral.com/

Lastly for this post, I wanted to curse everyone, erm, share with everyone, the LittleBigPlanet version of the internet phenomenon: http://www.sackroll.com/.  I’m so torn.  On one hand, I’ve heard enough of that song for many lifetimes, but I just can’t give you up, sackboy.